More home improvements

This one is l o n g overdue.
We finally painted the girls' room and bought them a real bed.

This is a terrible representation (and admittance) of their room before, but it gives an idea of what they were sleeping on:

Hannah has slept on a crib mattress since she left the "crib" (I use " " because she never had a real crib. They are just too big for our space). The mat on the right was used to acclimate Jane to sleeping on a bed.

We were planning on getting a bed for the girls soon anyway, but then we found this behind their shelves:

≈Gasp!≈ Disgusting right? I swear we didn't know it was there. We needed to paint immediately. We thought we might as well throw in a bed while we were at it.

It was a lot of work. I bleached the mold, and Dan scraped and sanded the layers of paint the mold was eating through.


There were so many places to repair. I had no idea their room was in such shambles.





The rest of the house was in shambles while we worked.

The girls really enjoyed the obstacles. Hannah made a bridge of diapers. Is there a better way to spend the day?

Finally, by sundown, we had finished painting and trimming the baseboards.

(Proof that I actually worked)

Here's a look at the corner before and after:


And remember this?


Well, forget it.

Here's their room put back together with a REAL bed, which the girls absolutely love. It's a sturdy, clever bed that adjusts to three different sizes. That and it's cute.
But the finishing touch, the pièce de résistance, the highlighting adornment (if you ask me) came just yesterday ~ my 16x20 photo of one of my roses.

I love how it looks in there. It's so big and bright~ just as I pictured it.

So now we have a girly room that the girls love and we can all be proud of. Hooray!

To see details (you know how I love details), go here.